Hello from West Virginia

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Patuxent

Patuxent

In the Brooder
6 Years
Oct 4, 2013
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We're newbies. We started this adventure in May with free wooden pallets, scrap doors, an old window and anything else on the cheap. Then came the fun part, attending our first swap. That didn't go quite as planned, we purchased 10 chickens and 7 turned out to be roos. Not a problem, they went straight into the pot with dumplings but it's wasn't easy eating birds we knew with faces.

Moving forward, in September we attended a larger more professional swap and built our flock back up to 7 hens. Yes, they are "hens" with three laying so far, but our Plymouth Rock, head hen Maggie, took a broody break. I never would have guessed (true sceptic) that the little Silkie would be a top producer and we started getting beautiful green eggs from the Easter last week.
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So this season I am thankful we are able to do this, have such a lovely flock of ladies and a wonderful forum for information. Thank you :)
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what a beautiful area!! Didja know silkies tend to go broody often, and people then use them to hatch any eggs, especially expensive fertile eggs. They don't care. Some people have silkies for that purpose alone.
 
drumstick diva said:
what a beautiful area!!  Didja know silkies tend to go broody often, and people then use them to hatch any eggs, especially expensive fertile eggs.  They don't care.  Some people have silkies for that purpose alone.
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I heard they go broody a lot, but we currently have no plans for that since we ate all the roosters :woot
 
Hello :frow and Welcome To BYC! Pretty coop and flowers, and the chickens are look lovely on the lawn don't they. You know you can buy fertile hatching eggs for your silkie on the BYC Buy-Sell-Trade forum, good way to get unusual breeds you can't find as chicks in your area ....
 

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